The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-05
ROCK.
Sensible Words of Warning to Young MAJ
ried People and Others.

Sensible Words of Warning to Young Mar
ried People and Others.
OF all social failings discourtesy i!
ne most fatal and most common. Hus
bands speak roughly to their wives, and
wives mag" their husbands; brothers
are ride; sisters are tyrannical; all OPP
pose, contradict, annoy II another,
aud no one thinks it incumbent upon
aim or on her to keep that check on the
temper and that paddock on the lips
which would be a matter of obligation
if a stranger were present. Though
there would be infinite distress-mourn-
ing and lamentation unspeakable-
should one of the eross-gralned brood
die, there is a general atmosphere OF
storm, threatened or broken loose, which
makes living in such a home damaging
to the character and distressful to the
sensibilities Here comes in the adj.
vantage of discipline and the value OF
wise authority, Here comes in. con-
rariwis2, the evils of this modern
~laxity-this abrogation of authority
when parents have let the reins DROP
from their hands, and discipline-not
tyranny, no undue coercion, but the
moral pressure which is the result Of
experience and knowledge-is as eflets
Is the dodo. We shall not do better in
the next generation. and we shall have
to wait now for the time when some
great religious passion or national
emotion shall knit society t o gether
again and restore the essential spirit OF
discipline by the coherent force Of a
cause-an idea-a faith. Here is
where religion. when sincere
And personally applied, is so
valuable. 1t supplies the motive for
self-control. the obligation for that pa.
thence and forbearanco with each other
which create sweetness of temper and
courtesy of manner And here it is
that irreligion is so hurtful when peo.
pie have not enough moral force to sup.
ply by self-respect and consideration for
others that absolute control over their
haser nature which has been lost by
abjuration Of authority. Those who
have taken to heart the sweet and ten.
der precepts of Christianity would neces.
sarily be courteous, gentle, of patient
of complying ways. And if,
unfortunately, a great deal of what is
.lled piety exhales itself in Journalism
here and barren dogmas there. the re.
turns its precepts into
sractice, and that divine peace which
eigns within has its expression with
at, and the radiance of the home
matches the sunshine of the heart.
Young wives and husband can not be
strongly reminded of the probable
hipwreck they will make of their hap.
'iness if they yield to that ill-temper
which expresses itself in d~iscourtesy,
vant Of compliance, unnecessary op-
and, above all, that most
disastrous amusement Of ''nagging"
nd creating arow. Hundreds of house.
Iolds have gone wrong for the mere
rant Of checking in time the habit Of
nnoying as a relief to a momentary
of irritation or discomfort. The
'ife who gets into the way Of con.
radicting, of checking her husband,
f opposing him in small things and
out in large ones-the hus.
and, who is sneering, contemptuous.
1rannical, f%aultfnding - perhaps
side knowing the whole extent
I its folly, but just giving way to it as
lore easy than to fight and conquer it
young people are doing their
est to dig a grave of their married
eace; and some day poor,
ale, fainting little love will
Ill into it, stark and plumeless, and
ill never rise to life again. In the
eginning these little tifs and discom-
,rts are made up with a kiss from him
nd a few tears from her to add cement
the reconciliation. By time the tihs
re more acrid and the reconciliation is
IS warm. BY still further time this
ever comes at all, and things get into
lat chronic state when there is never
n open breach and never a formal
but an overwhelming rift and
n~ever-ending GOODNESS. Then the two
YES jar and grind like rusty hinges
'cks which misft the slots; wheels
here the axle is stiff-or any thing else
hich should work together in harmony
nd smoothness, but which, for want Of
are to keep the adjustment exact (per-
APPS for want Of oil to the joints), crcak
nd cbafe and hang and do not fit, to
lie annoyance, and more, of all the
ystanders. Home Journal.
Two Curious Fishes.
Two remarkable specimens Of do.